Line 34 - elne mycle

Use of the instrumental cf. line 60a "eaðmod elne mycle"; line 123 "elne mycle". This phrase is used first of Christ, then of the Cross, and finally of the Dreamer. Only in the first case is the normal sense of "ellen" - "courage, strength, vigour" appropriate. The parallelism of the three moments is clearly more important than the exact sense of the noun.

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